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Motifs — first 20 of 36
- Culture hero (saint) defends Ireland against foreign invasions. A536.1
- Foreigners heads exchanged with those of devils in fight. A1610.1.1
- Tabu: horses' eating foreign provender. C224.4
- "We three" – "For gold" – "That is right": phrases of foreign language. Three travelers know each one phrase of a foreign language. They incriminate themselves. C495.2.2
- Ghost laid when bones are brought to home country from foreign soil. E459.2
- Miraculous ability to learn to read and to write foreign language in short time. F695.3.1
- Bird brings flower from foreign land. F982.4
- Prospective father-in-law requires that suitor for his daughter's hand visit foreign country (otherworld?) to learn feats of arms. H336.1
- Task: letting king hear something that neither he nor his subjects have ever heard. (Reads a letter from a foreign king demanding a loan.) H1182
- Task: recovering money owed by a foreign king. H1182.1
- Heathcock prefers home with hardships to travel in foreign lands. J215.3
- Bear mistaken for a foreigner. The strong man meets a bear in the forest, takes it for a German and struggles with it. Having strangled the bear, fears he has killed a man. J1762.8
- Words in a foreign language thought to be insults. J1802
- "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
- Two jars full of live black wasps sold as interpreters of foreign language. K137.1
- Parrot knowing only two words sold as speaking foreign language. K137.2
- Signal for theft given in foreign language. K358
- Victim persuaded to hold out his tongue: cut off. Robbers induced by various excuses (to learn to sing, to learn foreign language, to have a hair taken off the tongue). K825
- Disguise as foreign ambassador. K1839.7
- Fortune from informing foreign king of use of saddle, bridle, and stirrups. N411.3